NEW YORK;Thousands jumped off the Empire State Building Thursday as part of the famed skyscraper's 12th annual No-Hassle Suicide Day, during which anyone can take the iconic 86-story plunge without having to worry about being stopped, fined, or serving time in prison.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court Wednesday to block Microsoft Corporation's attempt to misuse copyright law to thwart a competitor offering memory cards for the Xbox gaming system

Hotness Delusion Syndrome explains why occurrences where one middle-aged party is thinking "Oh yeah," and the other, younger-than-that party is thinking, "I wonder if I can blend into the wall paint," are so common.

Canadian privacy experts have issued a new report today that strongly backs the practice of de-identification as a key element in the protection of personal information. The joint paper from Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research ...

When you think of Kelsey Grammer, you likely think of that guy from Cheers, or that same guy from Frasier, or Sideshow Bob, and hopefully not that guy from Hank. Whatever comes to mind, it's almost certainly a sitcom. But now, after a few spectacular failures in the sitcom world (2008's Back to You lasted one season, 2009's Hank was pulled shortly after rolling its opening credits), Grammer is done laughing—and is starring in Boss, a new drama from Starz.

A new study released by the Pew Research Center shows that the social tendencies of the Internet have shifted, with more users engaging in social networking services and gathering larger networks with more close friends than their offline counterparts.

Every scientific paper and report has to go through the critical scrutiny of other experts: peer review. Scientific authors are required to take reviewers' comments and criticisms seriously, and to fix any mistakes that may have been found. It's a foundational ethic of scientific work: no claim can be considered valid—not even potentially valid—until it has passed peer review.

Veteran militant Ayman al-Zawahri has taken command of al Qaeda after the killing of Osama bin Laden, an Islamist website said on Thursday, a move widely expected following his long years as second-in-command.

After six months under virtual house arrest, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange acknowledged Thursday that his detention is hampering the work of the secret-spilling site. His supporters accused Britain of subjecting him to "excessive and dehumanizing" treatment.

Piratetorrents.nu, formerly one of Sweden's largest private BitTorrent communities, has shut down fearing the authorities may come after them. The abrupt decision comes a few weeks after police in Sweden and Germany raided the XNT.nu BitTorrent tracker and arrested two of the alleged operators of the site.